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Wolfe, author of such bestsellers as "The Right Stuff" and "Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers," is considered by many to have created a new style of American journalism that challenges the concept of objectivity in reporting...
...intrepid voyagers usually includes returning U.S. veterans and naturalized American citizens, born in Viet Nam. "It's nice, flying into Saigon, not having to sit on a flak jacket," says Bob Handy, 55, of Santa Barbara, Calif., who served a year in Chu Lai with the Marines. "I'm going back because it's a beautiful country." Like most of her fellow Vietnamese- born travelers, Tran Thi Thuc, 49, a health-care worker from Kalamazoo, Mich., was hoping to visit relatives. "I have not seen my mother since 1975," she says, recalling a hasty departure with her husband...
GAIL SHEEHY caught a lot of flak, much of it deserved, for a long profile of Hart she wrote this summer in Vanity Fair. Sheehy went on and on with cheap pop psychological insights into Hart's upbringing while trying to answer the question "Why would Gary Hart want to sleep with a woman like Donna Rice?" She cited his stern mother and their even sterner Church as the source of his incessant womanizing...
Biden played along but his candidacy went nowhere. So he decided to take on a different role and portray "a middle-class guy" who wasn't "big on flak jackets and tie-dye shirts" in the '60s. (Presumably because he was too busy screwing up in law school.) Now an adviser, probably Pat Caddell, is saying that Biden's latest troubles will "free" him to "get into being himself." The new self is an aggressive "populist, anti-Establishment" candidate and arch-defender of the middle class. Who knows? Maybe he'll bounce back, stay in and run a strong race...
Still smarting over glitches in its newly activated B-1B bomber, the Air Force is now catching flak over its aircraft of the future, the radar-elusive Stealth bomber. Congressional critics say that technical and managerial problems are exponentially raising the project's cost. A reported $8 billion will be spent on the plane before it enters production early next year, and each of the 132 aircraft could cost more than $300 million, $23 million above the original price...